You are supposed to put flox between the metal bracket and the gear leg when you bolt it on. I don't see any reason why you couldn't get whatever angle you need with washers and flox. use some bagging film or Saran wrap so you can get it apart, remove the washers, and reflox it again.
I would give Dan a call first though. If you have never had the pleasure to speak with him it is a good excuse to call him and pick his brain on any other questions. He is extreemely helpfull and just a great guy to talk to. Peg and Mike Meyer wrote: >So I just spent the last couple of months ripping out my retracts, putting in >a Diehl gear assembly, foaming and glassing the resulting holes and today I >put my Matcos on only to find that the camber between the wheels isn't even >remotely close. I sat there in a very pissed off mood measuring and >re-measuring again only to find that the lower gear brackets do not share the >same angle formed between the gear leg and the axle. As a matter of fact, it >turns out that between the two, they're several degrees off (about 4 degrees). >For those of you messing around with gear geometry at this point in your life, >you know that this is a lot of degrees. I can't understand this - it never >occurred to me to check this prior to bolting them to the gear legs. In >fairness to the people at Diehl, I bought the assembly second-hand, but it >obviously was not damaged. And judging from what I see on the web, it sure >looks like a Diehl assembly. Moreover, a shim is really not going to work very >well - a quick computation with my CAD program indicates that a 4 degree >tapered shim behind the axle is about .210 thick. I'm just sick about this >mess. Anybody out there got any clever solutions short of ripping my plane >apart again? > >Mike Meyer _______________________________________________ >see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html >
